giant star

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Recent Examples of giant star Her star tattoo fully healed, Grant hopes the giant star – like Altadena itself – survives and thrives, not only in homage to what was lost but what could be. Cheri Mossburg, CNN Money, 26 Nov. 2025 Burst of energy could be from consumption of wayward giant star After considering a list of suspects behind the flare, the researchers determined that the most likely culprit is what's known as a tidal disruption event. Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 5 Nov. 2025 All the stuff, really, enough to make a bona-fide, honest-to-God, true-blue spoof feature, the kind made by a studio and with a budget and giant stars and a full-fledged theatrical release. Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 1 Aug. 2025 In the desert lands of the first century, a young boy catches the sight of a giant star. Greg Evans, Deadline, 2 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for giant star
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Noun
  • But with patience and a spirit of exploration, each step reveals a surprise: tiny red stars, minute purple pinpoints, a wash of pink-white across a creek.
    Alissa Greenberg, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Discovered in 1999, this small red star has no fewer than seven rocky planets in its habitable zone.
    Joanna Thompson, Space.com, 28 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Now, however, the team behind the new research believes the events are caused when a compact stellar remnant, like a black hole or a neutron star, slams into the universe's hottest class of star, massive stellar bodies called Wolf-Rayet stars.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 May 2026
  • Gamma rays are the most energetic type of light rays, typically marking the last gasp of a dying star or the cataclysmic clap of two neutron stars.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2026
Noun
  • Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, researchers imaged the binary star system AFGL 4106, which sits at the heart of a dusty orange cocoon.
    Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Situated some 3,000 light-years away in the constellation Corona Borealis is a binary star system poised for a rare thermonuclear display.
    Michael d'Estries, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Bradley Schaefer, an astronomer at Louisiana State University, focuses on cataclysmic variable stars, objects that vary in brightness over time due to some type of major turmoil.
    Liz Kruesi, Quanta Magazine, 2 Feb. 2026
  • In another imaging campaign, API, assisted by AMIGO, was able to produce detailed images of a black hole jet, the volcanic surface of Jupiter's moon Io, and stellar winds emanating from a distant variable star.
    Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The sun will end its life as a white dwarf in around 6 billion years, fading alone in a cosmic graveyard that was once our solar system.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 May 2026
  • In the center is a white dwarf, the dense, compact core of a dying star.
    Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Brighton, Manchester City, Arsenal and Everton all fall into the latter category, and FPL managers should be paying close attention to this variable heading into the final stretch.
    Abdul Rehman, New York Times, 11 May 2026
  • The main booking variable is whether WWE creative uses Backlash to extend Fatu's chase or pull a swerve.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026
Noun
  • Its anchor, Arcturus, is 37 light-years distant and a red giant star — its color leading Chinese astronomers to see it as a horn of a giant dragon.
    Jamie Carter, Space.com, 8 May 2026
  • Because our Sun will eventually become a red giant, the findings offer insight into its distant future.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 Feb. 2026

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